Project Director - Property Commercialisation & Insights

Amey are a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight, and collaboration.

The Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Director – Property Commercialisation & Insights (PC&I) to join our Consulting Business on a permanent contract.

As Project Director (PC&I), you’ll be at the forefront of expanding a high-impact consultancy offering. You’ll lead the charge into new markets, build a team around your vision, and deliver innovative solutions that transform our clients’ assets into thriving commercial and community assets.

This is more than a leadership role—it’s a chance to build a business within a business, backed by the resources of a major consultancy but driven by your entrepreneurial spirit.

The role

You will work as part of the senior leadership team of Property Commercialisation & Insights. The purpose of the team is to add value to our clients’ real estate assets and to deliver innovation to accelerate the delivery of property enhancements. Aligned with this, the main function of the role is twofold. Firstly, you will have primary responsibility for growing the PC&I consultancy offering to clients within the PC&I strategy, expanding our consultancy services into adjacent high footfall captive audience markets. Secondly, you will have shared responsibility for the delivery of services to clients in new sectors with the expectation that a new team will be built around you.

You will be integral to expanding and diversifying our current business, by nurturing and developing long term relationships with key clients and professionals to build a sustainable consulting pipeline and position PC&I to secure new and repeat consulting business in the target sectors. The role reports into PC&I’s Delivery Director and will involve close collaboration with the Commercial Director and other members of the senior leadership team. Nationwide travel will be required.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the growth of the PC&I Consultancy business working with colleagues and the Amey Business Development team to identify and develop new business opportunities
• Lead the delivery of PC&I Consultancy projects working with the established team
• Identify opportunities to up-sell / cross sell other services into client organisations as appropriate
• Consulting client contract management to ensure client satisfaction with the service and performance delivered by PC&I
• Ensure that safety is always the priority, promote safe working practices, ensure full implementation and compliance with Amey Key Processes and Safety Responsibility Statements
• Ensure all work undertaken complies with the relevant guidelines and practice notes of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (PC&I is regulated by RICS)
• Identify new markets and customers to expand and diversify the business
• Support the Delivery Director, Commercial Director and the SLT in setting business unit market strategy and annual business planning in line with financial targets
• Seeks out and develop new strategic business opportunities in line with the business strategy
• Deliver pipeline and orderbook growth, developing a strong list of pipeline opportunities and converting them into new projects
• Ability to lead and win formal bids, within an established bidding process.
• Sole responsibility for planning, project managing and delivering consulting projects with the team’s support.
• Develop and manage key client relationships, acting as the face of PC&I
• Understand and analyse competitor information

What will you bring to us:

We’re looking for a leader—someone who’s not just experienced but driven to create something new.

• Proven success in consultancy, property commercialisation, or asset management.
• A track record of winning work, leading bids, and delivering complex projects.
• Experience building teams and scaling services.
• Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for innovation and growth.
• Extensive experience in high footfall space management for commercialisation, operational, and community uses.
• Strong interpersonal & written communication skills, with an ability to develop effective relationships with clients and colleagues at all business levels
• Good understanding of the transport sector and the commercial arrangements within it
• Degree or post-graduate or demonstrable experience within this field
• Bidding, business development or project management qualifications considered beneficial

What we can offer you:

At Amey, we recognise that our biggest asset is our people. That’s why when you join us, we offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.

Career Development –

Our dedicated progression framework identifies your career pathway and progress within the organisation, and with dedicated mentoring and support on hand to ensure you hit your career milestones. We’re huge advocates for professional development and offer a recognition bonus for those achieving professional qualifications.

Work-life Balance –

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we’re open to discussing working options that suit you.

Wellbeing –

Health cash plan, 24 GP support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers.

EDI-

At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, NeuroDiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.

Social Value –

You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Plus, a range of other great perks and benefits including:

• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Bonus – up to 10% of base salary
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.

Your Career at Amey Consulting

At Amey Consulting, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. As one of us, you can really be yourself, because your individuality is an asset.

You’ll be stretched but always supported. We’ll recognise your hard work and look after your well-being too. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as the shared one.